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Operator Capacity Assessment Method for the Supervisory Control of Unmanned Military Vehicle

군사로봇의 감시제어에서 운용자 역량 평가 방법에 관한 연구

  • Choi, Sang-Yeong (The Specialized Research Center for Future Ground System Analysis, MyongJi University) ;
  • Yang, Ji-Hyeon (Automotive Engineering,Kookmin University)
  • Received : 2016.12.19
  • Accepted : 2017.02.15
  • Published : 2017.02.28
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Abstract

Unmanned military vehicles (UMVs) will be increasingly applied to the various military operations. These UMVs are most commonly characterized as dealing with "4D" task - dull, dirty, dangerous and difficult with automations. Although most of the UMVs are designed to a high degree of autonomy, the human operator will still intervene in the robots operation, and tele-operate them to achieve his or her mission. Thus, operator capacity, along with robot autonomy and user interface, is one of the important design factors in the research and development of the UMVs. In this paper, we propose the method to assess the operator capacity of the UMVs. The method is comprised of the 6 steps (problem, assumption, goal function identification, operator task analysis, task modeling & simulation, results and assessment), and herein colored Petri-nets are used for the modeling and simulation. Further, an illustrative example is described at the end of this paper.

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